ᐅ Mice in the newly built house – flooring installer coming tomorrow
Created on: 20 Dec 2020 17:28
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Bertram100
Dear forum community,
I recently moved into my new build. Due to delivery delays of the flooring, the screed is still exposed for now. Unfortunately, the house was already occupied by mice before I moved in. They run freely over the screed and investigate the moving boxes nearby. Then they disappear back into the cable ducts, which are open by a few centimeters (inches). The plaster ends about 3-4 cm (1-1.5 inches) above the top edge of the screed, so you can see the vertical pipes. It’s a paradise for mice, but quite annoying for me.
So far, they haven’t fallen into any traps and are ignoring the poison. There aren’t many mice, but I’d prefer them out of the house.
Tomorrow, the floor installer is coming to lay parquet flooring (layered parquet in long click planks). Then it will be oiled and left to dry, and after that, the baseboards will be installed.
My question is: Should I put some mouse poison inside the cable ducts and close everything off with the baseboards, hoping the mice family will die? Or should I leave some spots open, hoping the mice will come out on their own and eventually get caught in a trap somewhere in the room?
I’m also considering getting a cat. Any good advice is welcome!
I recently moved into my new build. Due to delivery delays of the flooring, the screed is still exposed for now. Unfortunately, the house was already occupied by mice before I moved in. They run freely over the screed and investigate the moving boxes nearby. Then they disappear back into the cable ducts, which are open by a few centimeters (inches). The plaster ends about 3-4 cm (1-1.5 inches) above the top edge of the screed, so you can see the vertical pipes. It’s a paradise for mice, but quite annoying for me.
So far, they haven’t fallen into any traps and are ignoring the poison. There aren’t many mice, but I’d prefer them out of the house.
Tomorrow, the floor installer is coming to lay parquet flooring (layered parquet in long click planks). Then it will be oiled and left to dry, and after that, the baseboards will be installed.
My question is: Should I put some mouse poison inside the cable ducts and close everything off with the baseboards, hoping the mice family will die? Or should I leave some spots open, hoping the mice will come out on their own and eventually get caught in a trap somewhere in the room?
I’m also considering getting a cat. Any good advice is welcome!
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Bertram10021 Dec 2020 07:11Oh, I didn’t know that chocolate is lethal to mice. I’ll get some cheese today and try that instead. I don’t want these creatures to suffer either. 🙁
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hampshire21 Dec 2020 07:13Unfortunately, we also learned this through trial and error and only looked it up later when we removed mice from the campervan last year.
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fach1werk21 Dec 2020 07:57There are many different types of mice. In the garden shed, where they once got into the crocuses prepared for planting, I caught four different species in one day. House mice eat food prepared by humans, while field mice do not. Field mice only eat what occurs naturally. Our field mice leave all human food untouched, but for example, they do take freshly shelled walnuts. They are attracted by the smell and are familiar with them. We are successful in catching them with live traps, but with snap traps, they gently remove the bait with their paws without triggering the trap. Good luck!
Best wishes, Gabriele
Best wishes, Gabriele
fach1werk schrieb:
, with snap traps they steal the bait carefully without triggering the trap. VHello fach1werkI have never experienced that. In 95% of cases, the mouse is immediately dead. No mouse has ever managed to steal the bait without triggering the trap. Once I had one where the bar hit its shoulder and the mouse tried to escape.
How do you kill mice caught in live traps?
Steven
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fach1werk21 Dec 2020 08:28Not at all. I take them to the forest.
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hampshire21 Dec 2020 08:28Steven schrieb:
How do you kill the mice caught in live traps?We don’t.